Improvement in basin-faucets



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JACOB HILLS, OF HAYDENVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

y IMPROVEMENT IN BASIN-FAUCETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 57,134., dated August 14, 1866.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AcoBHILLs, of Hay- ,denville,in the county of Hampshire and State 0I" Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Basin-Faucet; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawing, which is a vertical section of it.

In the said drawing, A denotes the basetube of the faucet as constructed in the ordinary manner, except that at its upper end it is formed with a shoulder, b, and a cylindrical neck, et, the latter being extended upward from the shoulder and provided with a male screw, c, to receive a nut, d.

The hollow globe B ofthe eduction-tube B' of the faucet rests on the shoulder b, and turns freely on it and theneck a, and is kept in connection with the tube A by means of the uut d, which may screw down upon a Washer, d', placed around the neck a and on the bottom of the valve-chamber B2, formed within the globe B.

C is a valve carrying an india-rubber or other proper elastic disk, e, to rest on the top ot' the tubular neck a. A pivot, f, extends up from the valve and into a cylindrical chamber or step, g, formed in the lower part of akey, D, which extends up through' the tubular standard E, projecting upward from the globe B. The keyD has a male screw, h, to screw into a female screw, i, made in the lower part of the bore of the standard.

A cap-nut, F, is screwed on the standard E and down upon the upper end of a cylindrical annulus, o, made of indiarubber, which encompasses the shank of the key D and rests on a hat metallic ring, u, which, in turn', is supported on an annular shoulder, m, arranged within the standard E in manner as represented. A

The cap F, when screwed down against the india-rubber packing or annulns 0, compresses it and causes it to expand in a manner to make a close joint around the key and at the upper part of the standard.

Arms Dl D extend from the key in manner as shown in the drawing, they being to enable a person to readily revolve the key by his hand when applied to such arms. The key will revolve on the pivot f of the valve without producing any rotary motion of the valve. At the same time, however, provided the key 1s caused to descend by its screw, the valve will be forced down upon its seat; but when the key may be revolved in an opposite direction it will rise upward and allow the valve to be pressed off its seat by a liquid when under pressure in the tube A.

The globe B, with its tube B', the standard E, and the key D may be revolved together horizontally without turning the valve on its seat or causing it to rise therefrom, and thus this basin-faucet will be capable of answering for two basins when arranged between them, or so that its tube B may be turned over so as to discharge into either of them, as occasion may require. y

By having the key turn independent-ly ot' the valve the packing of the valve is not liable to be cut or ground away, as is the case whenthe valve turns on its seat in moving either to or from it.

On the stem of the key D is a stop, Z, which, by contact with the ring n, serves to arrest the upward movement of the key. I By means of the ring n and its sustaining-shoulderm, I am enabled to support the packing o, and make the bore c of the standard E with a diameter sufficient to allow the stem of the key, with its screw h, to be passed down into or withdrawn from the standard.-

I claim as my invention- The above described improved faucet, as made with the pivot f and the step g, the valve C, and the key D applied to the parts A and E, as specified, and with the globe B of the dischargingtube B applied to the base-tube A, in manner and so as to be capable of being revolved thereon substantially asspecied.

J AOOB HILLS.

Witnesses:

SALMON H. CLAPP, CHRISTIAN KAPLINGER. 

